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Joint EVS/WVS 2017-2020 data-set release The World Values Survey Association (WVSA) and the European Values Study (EVS) are happy to announce the release of the official joint EVS-WVS 2017-2020 data-set. Fieldwork for this survey round was conducted from early 2017 to mid-2020. The joint data-set covers 79 countries and societies on all inhabited continents around the globe, ranging from Albania, Australia and Argentina to the United States, Vietnam and Zimbabwe. In total, over 127 358 respondents were interviewed so far for this joint EVS-WVS wave.

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The new 2020 World Cultural Map has been released The World Values Survey Association is happy to present the new 2020 (provisional) world cultural map based on the newest World Values Survey and European Values Study survey data. The cultural map methodology developed by the WVSA Founder Ronald Inglehart and the WVSA Vice-President Christian Welzel asserts that there are two major dimensions of cross cultural variation in the world: traditional values versus secular-rational values and survival values versus self-expression values. The global cultural map shows how scores of societies are located on these two dimensions. The 2020 map is the provisional version of the WVS wave 7 map with the final map to be released in Fall 2021 upon the completion of the wave.

Webinar "Value Changes in Pandemic Times" On Friday, November 27, the Romanian Group for the Study of Social Values in collaboration with European Values Study, Romanian Quantitative Studies Association, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai and Universitatea din București organize a webinar on "Value Change in Pandemic Times". During the webinar, studies conducted by researchers from 13 institutions in seven countries in Europe, accepted for publication in European Societies, journal of European Sociological Association, will be presented. Participation is free, but registration is required.

New book: Social and cultural values. How they arise, how they spread and how they change A new book "Social and cultural values. How they arise, how they spread and how they change" has been published by Juan Diez-Nicolas, Chair of the Scientific Committee at the World Values Survey Association.

10th LCSR International Workshop The Laboratory for Comparative Social Research of the National Research University Higher School of Economics announces a call for the 10th LCSR International Workshop, which will be held within the XXII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. It will take place in Moscow from the 13th till 23rd of April 2021. The submission deadline is December 27, 2020.

New book: How Italians change. Values and attitudes from the eighties to today The joint EVS-WVS Italian team published the book “Come cambiano gli italiani, Valori e atteggiamenti dagli anni Ottanta a oggi” (How Italians change. Values and attitudes from the eighties to today). How have Italians changed from the 1980s to today? How have Italians’ attitudes towards society, politics, work, family, religion, the European Union, science, the environment changed? Organized in fifteen short chapters dedicated to individual themes of great cultural, social and political relevance, the book presents the unpublished results of a major survey on the values of Europeans and Italians.

WVSA participates in the Second Interdisciplinary Conference on “Value Transformation in Central Asia” On 16-17 October the OSCE Academy and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation co-organized Interdisciplinary Conference on “Value Transformation in Central Asia.” Regional and international experts discussed to what extent institutional changes and shifts from autocratic to democratic systems have been accompanied by a shift of democratic and human rights values and how - so-called - traditional values in post-soviet Central Asia contradict or complement modern emancipatory norms.

Pippa Norris contributes to the UN Women Expert Group Meeting Member of the WVSA Executive Committee and Professor at Harvard University Pippa Norris contributed a background paper to the UN Women Expert Group Meeting "Women’s full and effective participation and decision-making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls’"

A Cultural Theory of Autocracy-vs-Democracy - Online lecture by Christian Welzel The Laboratory for Comparative Social Research (World Values Survey-Russia) at National Research University – Higher School of Economics held its next regular seminar on October 1 where the Vice-President of the WVSA Prof. Dr. Christian Welzel (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) delivered a report “A Cultural Theory of Autocracy-vs-Democracy”.

How Trump Solved the COVID-19 Pandemic On accepting the Republican nomination for re-election on August 27, 2020 President Trump boasted that “The United States has among the lowest case fatality rates of any major country in the world.” The claim was misleading. Case fatality rates measure how many people known to have gotten COVID-19 eventually die of it, and by that measure the U.S. ranked 11th among the 20 countries most affected by the disease. Trump had picked a statistic that reflects the quality of the U.S. health care system: Americans who got infected were likely to recover. But the claim was grossly misleading because it ignored the fact that under Trump’s presidency, Americans were vastly more likely to get infected than the citizens of most other countries. As he was speaking, the U.S. had the highest number of coronavirus-related deaths of any country in the world—by a wide margin.

Giving Up on God: The Global Decline of Religion A new article by Ronald Inglehart, Professor at the University of Michigan and WVSA's Founder and President (1981-2013), in the September/October 2020 issue of the Foreign Affairs.

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PRESIDENT

Christian Haerpfer

c.w.haerpfer@gmail.com

WVSA President

University of Vienna

Institute of Political Science

Vienna 1010, Austria

SECRETARIAT
(WVSA Headquarters)

Kseniya Kizilova

wvsa.secretariat@gmail.com

Head of WVSA Secretariat

Institute for Comparative

Survey Research

Vienna 1040, Austria

LEGAL SEAT

Bi Puranen

bi.puranen@worldvaluessurvey.org

Secretary-General

Institute for Future Studies

Stockholm, Sweden 101 31

DATA ARCHIVE

Jaime Diez-Medrano

jdiezmed@jdsurvey.net

Director of the WVSA Archive

Pza Manuel Rodrigo 1, B-1E

Madrid, Spain 28043

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